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Tag: Austrian Jews

0 Literature History

Lore Segal: ‘her subject was her life’

Jewish Chronicle · 16 Oct 2024

Lore Segal, who passed away at 96, was a celebrated Austrian-Jewish novelist who transformed her life's trials into captivating fiction.

0 Holocaust History

Nearly 4,000 Jews died at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia. This artist is fighting for a memorial to them.

Deborah Lynn Blumberg in JTA · 17 May 2024

Karen Frostig, an artist and descendant of Holocaust victims from the Jungfernhof camp in Latvia, has been on a mission to establish a memorial for the nearly 4,000 Jews who perished there, including her grandparents.

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Could Roosevelt Have Saved Millions?

Marjorie Perloff in Tablet · 22 Jun 2023

The article discusses the controversy surrounding the role of the Roosevelt administration in saving Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

0 Holocaust Philosophy

The Lie of Viktor Frankl

David Mikics in Tablet · 10 Sep 2020

The article critiques the legacy of Viktor Frankl, focusing on his controversial medical experiments on suicidal Jewish patients during the Holocaust and his philosophical approach to surviving suffering, which gained him fame.

0 Holocaust History

Wesley Yang in Tablet · 5 Jun 2009

"The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War" delves into the story of the Wittgenstein family, once wealthy and prominent in Austria, who discovered their Jewish heritage under Nazi rule, leading them to face persecution despite their prior disavowal of their Jewish roots.